Shirt-bosom



(No Model.)

I'. E. MIST'ROI'.

SHIRT BosoM. No. 442,986. Patented Dec. 16, 1890.

F I G R.-

FIC-LL.

UNITED STATES FELIX E. MISTROT,

PATENT OEEICE.

oE BRYAN, T :XAs

SHIRT-BOSOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,986, dated December 16, 1890).

A Application-Med August 26, 1890. Serial No. 363,107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'FELIX E. MIsTRoT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bryan, in the county of Brazos and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Shirt-Besoin, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparel, and more particularly to that class thereof known as shirts; and the object of the invention is to provide an ilnproved dickey adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt.

To this end the invention consists of the details of construction as hereinafter more fully described, and as illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure I is a front elevation ot' this improved dickey made in imitation of an openfront shirt, and also showing the improved collar-band. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through a diokey of similar construction, exceptthat the bosom is closed in front. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter B designates the bosom of this improved dickey, which may be of silk, linen, or cotton, or which, in fact, may be of any material of which shirtbosoms are usually made, and the same may be either iiexible or highly starched.

In Fig. l I have shown a dickey made in imitation of an open-frontshirt, provided with a box-plait P down the center, which comprises one form in which this improved dickey may be made. In any case the upper end of the dickey is provided with a collar-band C, having a single button-hole S above the center of the bosom and two or more button-holes Il in each extremity. Then these extremities are brought together at. the back of the neck, they are lapped the desired distance and a collar-button inserted through two of the holes Il. In this manner my improved dickey may be worn either in the place of a shirt or over a shirt, and in the latter case the same collarbuttons that attach the collar to the shirt pass interniediately between these two through the button-holes in the neckband of the dickey.

In order that this improved dickey may be rendered reversible, I provide the same at the base of the bosom with cross straps or stays Y, depending from which are two tabs T, each having a button-hole for the waistband-button of the drawers, between which ltabs the materia-l F otr the dickey falls for a certain distance, like the ordinary shirt-flap.

The dickey is applied over the shirt or in place of the shirt in the ordinary manner, and after it has 4become soiled it is taken off, reversed, and then put on with the other or clean side outermost, both sides of the dickey being finished in the same manner.

It will be understood that when the dickey is reversed the neckband C is also reversed; but this does not affect the attachment of the collar.

lVhat is claimed as new ism The herein-d escribed dickey, the same com- )risinfr a bosom B divided down its center a box-plait P at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each otherand the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-strapsYat the lower ends of the sections, a tab T depending from each strap, a flap F between said tabs, .and a collar-band C connected to the upper ends of both sections, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FELIX E. MISTE-OT.

Witnesses:

J. F. MITCHELL, R. M. SMITH. 

